LNP not worried about me: Newman

Campbell Newman has denied his party is anxious about his performance on the campaign trail after slipping up while making a major jobs pledge.

The Liberal National Party leader has hosed down reports there's concern in his own party about how he'll conduct himself when the state poll is called.

At a breakfast function in Brisbane on Tuesday, Mr Newman said an LNP government would create 420,000 new jobs under a policy to cut the state's unemployment rate to 4 per cent over six years.

But on Thursday he said he probably shouldn't have mentioned the 420,000 figure, as it was intended as an indication only of the number of jobs he'd have to generate.

Premier Anna Bligh seized on the admission as proof that the party was a shambles and couldn't keep a promise for even a week.

But Mr Newman on Friday insisted this 4 per cent target was an unambiguous, unequivocal pledge that voters could hold him to account on.

"During the speech (on Tuesday), I indicated we felt, on the basis of some of the modelling and projections we'd done, that would require around 420,000 jobs to be created. But the target is 4 per cent," he told Sky News.

"And I contrast that to the unemployment figures that were released yesterday which showed Queensland had the highest mainland state's unemployment at 5.6 per cent."

He rejected Treasurer Andrew Fraser's comments that the LNP's target was a stunt and simply reflected the numbers in treasury projects.

"If the target of 4 per cent is so easy, I challenge Mr Fraser and Anna Bligh to make that commitment as well," he said.

He denied suggestions there was concern about his performance in LNP ranks.

"No one's expressing those concerns at all," he said.

Mr Newman repeated his claims the LNP is the underdog, despite polls consistently pointing to a victory for the party.

He said the LNP has a big challenge convincing voters to turn on popular Labor MPs.

"... we've got a very strong concern from talking to people that they actually think they can get an LNP government and get positive change, but they still can, perhaps, retain a popular Labor member," he said.

"To get change they have to vote one for the LNP and that is a big, big problem for the LNP right now."

Mr Newman said there was a "quiet fury" building across the state about Ms Bligh's failure to call the election as the March anniversary of her 2009 win approached.

He also warned voters not to risk a minority government mess like the one in Canberra, by "mucking around" with minor parties or independents.

"That can only lead to two results ... we end up with Anna Bligh and this tired Labor government being re-elected," he said.

"Or secondly, and perhaps even more worryingly, we could end up with the sort of mess we have in Canberra."

Meanwhile, Centrebet says the LNP is the clear favourite to win the poll.

"It just got a little uglier for the incumbent Labor government in Queensland on Centrebet, drifting from $6.00 out to a staggering $6.25," Centrebet's Neil Evans said.

"The LNP has firmed again this morning from $1.12 into a red-hot $1.11.

"The huge gap is hard to fathom, but it's all based on the mail I have, and the overwhelming weight of smart money is the LNP's way."

Mr Fraser later said Mr Newman's 420,00 jobs target was all stunts and slogans but no substance.

"He was out there talking the big game earlier in the week on setting a jobs target and two days later he had to back away from that," he told reporters in Brisbane.

"Even now he has admitted that he can't explain his own jobs target. These are reckless promises, they are ones made up on the go."